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CURIOUS ORIGIN OF DAKoTA's
NAME.-The territory of Dakota, is,
in many respects the most interest
ing grand division of our country's
domain. For few years it has oc-
cupied more attention than any
other. No state or territory, certain
ly, haye ever risen to such rapid and
surprising Importance.
The origin of its name has been
a subject of some dispute; but the
best Indian authority, dweller for
forty years among the Sioux Indi-
ans, makes the word an abbrevia-
tion of Pa-ha-Sota, which means
"many heads, or plenty" The affix
"Sota" always means "plenty" in
the Sioux language. In the words
Minnesota, it means plenty Of water,
the appropriateness of which desig-
nation is made manifest when you
consider that the state bearing that
name is only two-thirds land, the
remaining one-third being water.
What the many heads were that
gave to Dakota its title I do not pre-
tend to say from actual knowledge,
but suppose they were the heads Of
buffaloes. Nothing could be dearer
to the Indian than this game, and
here they abounded. Their count
less trails and wallows are still to be
found on every hand not to speak of
the elk, deer and antelope" speci-
mems of which have survived the
buffalo's practical extinction in the
territory.
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two hundred students.
Its control is eminently religious, but

commodities two hundred students.
Its control is eminently religious, but
the limited time given for chapel
exercises forbade my proposed ad-
dress the following morning on Ma
tional Reform. President McBryde
assured me that he would inform
him beforehand. d.
Next morning I called on Cover
nor Richardson and found him a
frank, affable gentleman, disposed
to talk freely of public affairs, past
and present. He expressed the hope
that more northern men would come
down that he would be glad to in
troduce me to the citizens and do all
he could to make me comfortable.
I took the liberty of calling attention,
in speaking of our Association, to
the commission of all mention of the
Lord Jesus in our Thanksgiving
Proclamations. He expressed him
self favorable to such mention. May
he join his fellow Governor Of North
Carolina next autumn and may the
number grow with every year.
How fresh and sweet are these
mornings and evenings our Master
gives this Southern climate. This
morning in crossing Sidney Park a
curious, bowl shaped enclosure cram
med with great water oaks and other
trees, the clouds as soft grey mist
hid the hot sun, the foliage took that
rich dark hue it never wears in
sunlight, the air was as gentle, fra
grant, dewy, refreshing, as the breath
from Springs own lips. But yester-
day evening, on my way to the post
office, 1 suddenly came out where
the street came along the edge of a
bluff. For miles and miles stretched
the beautiful vision. Here before
me lay q large portion of the city
with its shaded streets and homes hid
in vines. The air was rich with the
last song of the robins. Away to the
right lay the valley of the Congaree
and the eye ran beyond the farthest
line of its bluffs until sight was lost
in the hazy blue. Along the distant
sky trailed a column of smoke as of q
passing train. Such indescribable
purple shadows in the Southwest.
Such a glorious sky overhead. And
in the west the evening star shone,
a solitary magnificent brilliant, fas-
tening bow of dull crimson cloud
at the throat of Evening.
WILLIAM WEIR.
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it may be said, used pitch-pine on
her outward voyage, and wood was
for a very long time the chief fuel
for stealning purposes in America
iScribneT's MOnthIu.

"MY LADS, BE HONEST. DIR.
Livingston, the famous explorer, was
descended from the Highlanders, and
he said that one of his ancestors one
day called his family around him.
He was dying and had all Of his
children around his death-bed. He
said: "Now, lads, I have looked all
through our history as far back as l
can find it, and I have never found 9
dishonest man in all the line, and /
want yout to understand thatyou in
herit good blood. You have no ex-
cuse for doing wrong. Be honest"
Horace Greeley once said: "The
darkest hour in the history of any
young man is when he sits down to
study how to get money without
earning it,"
What an heritage honesty is. There
are people who believe in blood.
Their theory is that low-lived parents
transmit their qualities to their de-
scendants; and high-toned, well.bred
people do the same. OF course there
are exceptions to all general rules,
but the rule holds good as whole.
And this we call heredity. We in
herit our progenitors' property, but
good name is more valuable than
gold or silver or cattle upon thous-
and hills. Oh! young man, be hon
est! Young woman, be honest and
just to yourself, and you will be hon.
est and just towards your neighbor,
and above all to your CREATOR
Morning Neacs.
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POWER OF SUNSHINE.

In recent number the Chautdu-
qatdn there is an interesting article
by Charles Barnard, in which he
shows that the great star which we
call the sun is literally the stove that
keeps the whole world warm. In
conclusion, he gives the following
curious facts:
Heat expands and cold contracts,
and everything warmed by the sun
expands under its gentle heat. Ev-
cry rail on all our railroads expands
and grows perceptibly longer in
bright sunshine, and contracts and
grows shorter whenever cloud cuts
off the heat, or the earth in turning
moves away from the sun. So it is
found necessary to leave little space
between every rail whereby it can
stretch itself in hot summer days.
Were all the rails pushed close to-
gether in laying the track, the first
day of hot sunshine would pull the
track to pieces, or render it so un-
even that it could not be used.
Every iron bridge stretches in the
sunlight, and would tear itself to
pieces were it not carefully adjusted
for this expansion in the sun and
given chance to freely move on its
foundations whenever the warm
fingers of the sun are laid upon it.
Brooklyn Bridge is in four dis
tinct pieces, with plenty of room be-
tween to move, and it does move
every day. In warm sunshine it is
longer by several inches than on a
cold night. The cables of the bridge
are continuous, but the expansion
caused by heat lengthens the cables,
and they let the bridge sink two or
three feet in the middle. Even a
passing cloud, hiding the sun for a
few moments, will cause the entire
bridge to rise in the middle by cool
ing and contracting the cables. l
have personally measured the move
ment of Brooklyn Bridge on a hot
summers day, between bright sun
shine and the shade caused by clouds,
and have seen that it moved over
one inch in less than two hours. In
building the great bronze Liberty in
New York Harbor, the same thing
had to be guarded against, and pro-
vision is made to allow the whole
vast figure to move under the expan-
sion caused by the heat of the sun.
The movement, owing to the irregu-
lar surface of the statue, is not visi-
BILE, as in the Brooklyn Bridge, yet
it is there. Even Bunker Hill Mon
ument, which is built wholly of
stone, is distorted every day by the
sun, though the movement cannot
be proved except by certain expert
ments made for the purpose.
What will finally become OF our
stella stove no man can positively
say; yet, judging from what we
know already, it is quite possible
that it is already burning out. When
its fires finally die down, the end of
our planet is at hand, and all life
here will slowly, or suddenly, per-
haps, become extinct by freezing,
and our planet will meet it's end as a
dead star swinging through the aw-
full cold of the stella species. Peo-
Pile of fervid imagination have
thought the world would come to an
end in general confagration. 1t is
much more likely our stella stove
will 20 out and the world will calm
ly freeze up. Of the two methods of
ending earthly history, the latter
will be evidently the more comfort
able.
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A PRACTICAL REL1GIoN.-We
want a religion that softens the step
and tunes the voice to melody, and
checks the impatient exclamation
and harsh rebuke; a religion that is
polite, deferential to superiors, cour-
teous to interiors, and considerate to
friends; a religion that goes into the
family and keeps the husband from
being cross when the dinner is late,
and keeps the wife from fretting
when the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots,
and makes the husband mindful of
the scraper and the door-mat keeps
the mother patient when the baby
is fretful, and amuses the children
as we'll as instructs them {; cares for
the servants besides paying them
promptly; projects the honeymoon
into the harvest-moon, and makes
the happy home like the Eastern fig
tree, bearing in its bosom at once the
beauty of its tender blossoms and
The glory of the ripened fruit. We
want a religion that shall interpose
between the ruts and gullies and
rocks of the highway of life and the
sensitive souls that are travelling over
them.
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CHAPTER X.
JOHN HAS AN ESCAPE.

On the following Monday John, taking
Jantje to drive him, departed in rough
Scotch cart, to which were harnessed two Of
the best horses ut Mooifontein, to shoot buck
at Hans CoetZce's.
lie reached the place at about $50 o'clock,
and concluded, from the fact of the presence
Of several carts and horses, that he was not
the only guest. Indeed, the first person that
he saw Us the cart pulled up was his late ene-
my, Frank Muller.
"kek QooL), baas," said Jantje, "there is
Baas Frank talking to Basutu!"
John was, as may be imagined, not best
pleased at this meeting. He had always dis
liked the man, and since Muller's conduct OIL
the previous Friday, and Jantje's story of the
dark decd of blood in which be had been the
principal actor, he positively loathed the sight
of him. lie got out of the CART md was go
ing to walk round to tue back of the house in
order to avoid him, when Muller, to all ap-
pearance, suddenly became aware of his pres
ence and advanced to meet him with the ut
most cordiality.
"How DO you do, captains" he said, holding
out bis hand, which John just touched. $50
you have come to shoot buck with Om Coet-
zee: going to show us Trallsvaalers how to do
it, eli! There, captain, don't look rs stiff as
rifle barrel know what you are thinking
Of; that little business at Wakkerstroom on
Friday, is it not! Well, now, I tell you what
it is, was in the wrong, and amt afraid to
say 50 US between man and man. l had had
glass, that was the fact, and did not quite
know what was about. We have got to live
as neghbors hero, so let us forget all about it
AID be brothers again. never bear malice,
not /. 1t is not the Lords will that we should
bear malice. Hit out from the shoulder, l
say, md then forget all about it. If it hadn't
been for that little monkey" he added, jerk
ing his thumb in the direction Of Jantje, who
was holding the horses heads, 'it would never
have happened, and it is not nice that two
Christians should quarrel about such Us he"
Muller jerked out his long speech i'll a sue
cession OF sentences, something as a school
boy repeats hardly learned lesson, tidgeting
his feet and letting his eyes travel about the
ground us he did SO; and it was evident to
John, who stood quite still and listened to it
in icy silence, thut it was by no means all ex-
temporary one. 1t had too clearly been COM
posed for the occasion.
~ do not wish to quarrel with anybody,
Meinheer Mullcr,n he answered at length.
II never do quarrel unless it is forced OH me,
and thcii," he added, grimly, II do my best
to make it unpleasant for my enemy. The
other day you attacked first my servant and
then myself. l am glad that you now see
that this was all improper thing to do, and,
so far as l am concerned, there is IN end of
the matter" and he turned to enter the
house.
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man stole your horses forage, and what bust.
ness have you to touch himl If there was
anything wrong you should have reported it
to me-"
HE lies, baas, he lies!" yelled the Hotten-
tot in tremulous, high pitched tones "He
lies; he has always been liar, and worse
about him. The land is English now, and tho
Beers can't kill the black people as they like.
That man-that Boer, Muller, he shot my
father and my mother-my father first, then
my mother; he gave her two bullets-she did
not die the first time"
"You yellow devil! You black skinned,
black hearted, lying son of Satan!" roared
the great Boer, his very beard curling with
fury. "Is that the way you talk to your
masters! Out of the light, rooibaatje" (sol-
dier)-this was to John-"and will cut his
tongue out of him. I'll show him how we
deal with yellow liar" and without further
ado he made rush for the Hottentot. As he
came, John, whose blood was now thoroughly
up, put out his open hand and bending for
ward pushed with all his strength on Muller's
advancing chest. John was a very power:
fully made man, though not very large
one, and the push sent Muller staggering
back.
aWhat doyou mean by that, rooibaatjel"
shouted Muller, his face livid with fury.
aGet out of my road Or viii mark that
pretty face Of yours. I have some goods to
pay you for as it is, Englishman, and I
always pay my debts Ont Of the path, curse
you'll" and he again rushed for the Hottentot.
This time John, who was now almost as
angry as his assailant, did not wait for him
to reach him, but springing forward, hooked
his arm around Muller's throat, and before
he could close with him with one tremendous
jerk managed not only to stop his wild career,
but to reverse the motion, and then, by inter-
posing his foot with considerable neatness, to
land him, powerful man as he was, on his
back in pool Of drainage that had collected
from the stable in the hollow of the inn yard.
Down he went with splash and amid
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READING FACEs.-Could we read
Alright, we should find that every
human being carries the lineaments
of the life in the face. Good looks
or ill looks accord respectively with
the complexion of the life: tits very
certain that beauty is added to and
called forth by the exercise of the
kindly affection of love, of pity, of
trust, of hope and of pure joy, and
it is equally certain that intellectual
qualities have a similar result, for
we have it upon ancient and high
authority that "a mans wisdom
maketh his face to shine, and the
hardness Of his face is changed"
Thus beauty is not only skin deep,
as another saying afirms, but it may
also be said to be so natural that it
goes all through.
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so, jumping up from his crouching position,
he tossed his arms into the air and sprang
and shouted in way that left no mistake as
to his whereabouts. In another minute he
saw a man OH horseback, cantering easily
toward him, in whom he had little difficulty
in recognizing as Frank Muller. He went
and picked up his hat; there was bullethole
right through it. Then, full of wrath, he ad-
vanced to meet Frank Muller.
"What the -- did you mean by firing at
me?" he asked.
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LABoR.-All labor we'll and wor-
thily performed, is in itself, a direct
means of elevating and improving
the laborer. In the first place, it
calls forth energy and force, and they
grow by exercise. No system OF self
culture, however elaborate, can ever
give that tone and vigor to the sys-
tenn, or that sense of power to the
mind, which come from regular,
well-performed labor. To work with
a purpose whether it be at the forge
or the shop, in the factory or the
office, in the field or the studio, in
the kitchen or the school-room, gives
a conscious ability that nothing else
can produce, and that goes far to
make the manly and womanly char
acter.
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CHAPTER TX.
JANTE'S STORY

IA NTE STORY.
Shortly after the old Boer had conc, John
went into the yard of the hotel to see to the
inspaniiing of the Cape cart, when his atten-
tion was at once arrested by the sight of
row in active progress-at least, from the
crowd of kaffirs and idlers and the angry
sounds and curses that proceeded from them,
he judee1 that it was n row. Nor was he
wrong about it. In the corner of the yard.
close ly the stable door, surrounded by the
aforesaid crowd, stood Frank Muller, q heavy
sjambock III his raised hand above his head
as though in the act to strike. Before him, a
very picture of drunken fury, his lips drawn
up like snarling dogs so that the two lines
of his white teeth CLEANED like polished ivory
in tho sunlight, his small eyes all shot with
blood, and his face working convusively, was
the Hottentot Jantje Nor was this all.
Across his face was blue wheal where the
whip had fallen, and in his hand heavy
white handled knife which he always carried.
''Hullo! what is all thisy' said John shoul-
dering his way through the crowd
1.-THE swartsel (black creature) has stolen
my horses forage and given it to yours"
shouted Muller, who was evidently almost off
his head with rage, making an attempt to hit
Jantje with the whip as he spoke The latter
avoided the blow by jumping behind John,
with the result that the tip of the sjambock
caught the Englishman on the leg.
"Be careful, sir, with that whip" said John
to Muller, restraining his temper with diff.
Guilty. "Now, how do you know that the
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A MONUMENT TO ST. PAUL.-One
of the latest projects proposed by a
number of gentlemen in this country
is to build a monument to st. Paul
in his native city of Tarsus, Asia
Minor. There are Il great many
churches in both this country and
Europe which have been named
after st. Paul, but none of these have
been erected to his memory. The
most fitting place for such a monu-
nent is the city of his birth, about
which there is no uncertainty, for as
Paul himself said: II am a man
which am a Jew of Tarsus-a city in
Cilicia a citizen of no mean CITY,"
The present population of Tarsus is
about 10000. 1t is situated on the
Cydrine river, and stands within con-
trolling distance of the great pass Of
Taurus mountains, now, as in ancient
times, the sole easy land communica-
tion between Persia, Syria, and the
West.
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ITO BE Continued

VOLCANIC Observation-Disclosures
volcanic disturbances are said to
have been frightening the people
living along the Blood River, near
New Concord, in Galloway county,
Ky. The phenomena was first no.
ticed a short time ago, when all the
wells suddenly ran dry, and at night
there was a deep rumbling noise re-
sembling the mutterings of distant
thunder, which seemed to come from
the earth. Occasionally there would
be an explosion like the booming of
a far-off gun, and recently column
of fire has been seen to shoot up ut
intervals during the night from
Stonger's bluff, two miles from the
town. Citizens who went out to in
vestigate the disturbance say that
the heat near the bluff was so intense
that they could not approach it. The
scene Of the phenomena is one of the
widest and most rugged parts of the
State, and is remote from cOmmuni-
cation by mail or telegraph.
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Misfetlamepl1s 8tadi,ta.
NOTES ON SOUTH CAROLINA.

Rev. William Weir, of Philadel-
phia, one of the secretaries of the
National Reform Association, who
last month made several addresses
in South Carolina in the interest of
the objects of the Association, has
written pleasant letter to the Chris
Han Statesman, published in Phila-
delphia, giving his impressions of
this State as formed after association
with our people. Rev. Mr.. Weir
was accompanied part of the time
while in this State by Mr.. John AL
exander, of Philadelphia, an aged
gentleman and Christian philanthro-
pist, who, while in Yorkville, be-
came violentlyill and was forced to
take his bed. The following is Mr..
Weir's letter:
The last ten days have all been
spent on South Carolina soil. Four
places have been visited in that time
and more or less presentment of our
cause made in each. This is the his
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SPONTANEOUS CONVERSATIONAL
farmer near Chambersburg, Pa, re-
Gently prepared some home made
phosphate from lime and chicken
manure, which he left in heap upon
his barn floor. Some time after it
was discovered that a peculiar smell,
as of some substance burning, was
issuing from the barn. Upon inves-
tigatiOn it was found that the phOs-
phate was a mass of fire. The diff
fereut compositions Of which it had
been made generated such great
heat that spontaneous combustion
was the result. With the aid of
others the farmer succeeded in pitch
ing the burning mass from the barn.
The barn floor, whereon the mass lay,
was considerably charred and black
ened.- Chicago Herald.
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s4 Never have dark furniture for
the kitchen; it shows dust much
more than light and requires double
the care.
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CURIOUS WEATHER IN OLDEN
TIMEs.-The people up North in 1900
never used to put a kernel Of seed
corn in the ground until May 7th.
And it is a matter of history that,
on the morning of May IA, 1884, the
people in Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont and all Northern New
York, arose to find eighteen inches
of snow on the ground. Yet, the
crops never did better.
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COLUMBIA.

On the arrival of Mr.. l.. II. Alex
ander from Philadelphia, to take
charge of his fathers case, the broken
thread of work was taken up and the
next train conveyed me to Columbia.
This is the Stale Capital of ten or
twelve thousand population, on the
Congaree river, at the head of navl-
CATION. TO use a quotation well
worn by our fathers, it is "beautiful
for situation" The State residence
of the Governor, the Post Office, and
the State House, are fine buildings.
But the glory of the city is in her
trees. Miles OF streets set on either
side with stately water oaksand elms,
marvellous in. their luXuriance OF
foliage. 1t is worth journey to the
South to see its magnificent water
oaks.
In the evening I called upon DIR.
Patton, of the Carolina College, and
he, after hearing the nature of our
cause, took me to see Mr.. McBryde,
the President. This is State insti-
tuition, giving free tuition to all stu
dents residing in the State. 1t ac-